Improvement in children s carriages



UNITED STATES RUSSELL COBLEIGH, OF CHESTER, VERMONT.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHILDRENS CARRIAGES,

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0.155,223, dated September 22, 1874; application filed July 15, 1874.

To all whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, RUSSELL COBLEIGH, of Chester, of the county of Windsor of the State of Vermont, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Carriages for Children; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specifiation, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l denotes a top view, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, of

a carriage-body with my invention.

In this carriage-body I the back A at its lower edge is hinged to the rear part of the seat B, the hinge being shown at a, the same being in order that such back may be reclined or turned downward. In advance of the seat is a leg-rest or platform, C, which, when in its lowest position, rests upon the door b of the body, the front of said leg-rest being usually hinged to the iloor or connected therewith by a carpet, c, covering and fastened to the two. Against the inner face of each side piece cl of the body, and between it and the seat, there is arranged a bent lever or a lever, D, provided with a foot, e, projecting from it at an obtuse angle, andv directly underneath the movable platform C. To the upper part of the lever a connecting-rod, E, is pivoted, such rod being eX- tended back and pivoted to the back A. On turning down the back the platform C, by the action of the levers and connecting-rods, will be raised up even with the top of the seat, it dropping down upon the floor while the back may be in the act of being raised. By means of the said movable platform and back applied to the body and seat, and provided with operative mechanism, as described, the carriage may be converted into a lounge for supporting a child in a recumbent position.

The childs carriage, represented in the United States Patent No. 119,523 of J. G. Krieger, dated October 3, 1871, has its legsupporting platform or footboard hinged to a board, which in turn is hinged to the seat, the foot-board resting at its front edge upon the floor of the body, andthe back, by means of a rod, being connected with the board that is hinged to the seat.

In the operation of this latter combination of parts it will be seen that the leg-rest or foot-board has not only a movement up and down, but a longitudinal one, by which it is caused to slide upon and wear the carpet of the floor.

In my combination of parts, the leg-rest or platform C, while in movement with the back while the latter is being turned either upward or downward, .has a vertical movement only, or no sliding movement on the floor. Also, that I do away with or do not use a board hinged to the sea-t at its front, and also to the foot-board.

I do not claim a chair or carriage body with a movable back, such being very old; nor do I claim a chair or carriage body having such a back combined, by a pitman or rod, with a board hinged to the seat and to a foot-board resting on the chair or carriage-Hoor, all being as shown in the aforesaid patent.

I claim as my invention or improvement in the childs carriage- The movable platform C and its operative bent levers D c and connection-rods E, combined with the body I, the seat B, and the movable back A, all substantially as specified.

RUSSELL COBLEIGH.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, S. N. PIPER. 

